I have my first endo appointment in almost 6 months on Thursday. I have to get my blood work done tomorrow, so I am a little nervous. I already know that my A1C is going to be high, probably around 8. I haven’t had one that high since I was first diagnosed. Yesterday was my best full day of blood sugars and I am going to try and copy it as much as I can for as long as I can.
First, to start the day, I actually ate breakfast. It wasn’t a very healthy breakfast, a donut, but it was something in my stomach. For lunch I had a chicken sandwich, not fried, grilled, so it was healthy. For dinner I controlled my portion size and that was very tough for me later on at night. I had one beef slider, a salad, and some brown rice. Very small portion for me, I would normally eat about 3 sliders, 2 bowls of salad and 2 servings of rice.
For a snack at night, which I didn’t even want to eat, but my blood sugar was going down I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Why was my blood sugar going down finally? Because I did this weird thing called exercising for 45 minutes. First time that I had an intense exercise in months, seriously, months. I went for a nice, fast 2 mile walk to start it off then came back to do some crunches, push-ups, leg raises and then did some curls.
I think that I have found the fix to always saying that I don’t have time to exercise. Here it is. I am backed up on some of my favorite podcasts all the way back to January because I never have time to listen to them, because when I do work, I don’t fully concentrate on the podcast or my work. So, if I don’t have time to listen and don’t have time to exercise, why don’t I just do them together? My new goal is to exercise my way through 2 separate podcasts, which are anywhere from 20-30 minutes each. Last night I made it through two episodes of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast.
Let’s hope that this keeps up and I can start to lose some weight again before I head back up north to New York and home to visit family.